minnix@lemux.minnix.dev to Philosophy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 years agoNoam Chomsky, 95, ‘no longer able to talk’ as intellectual’s ‘health deteriorates’www.independent.co.ukexternal-linkmessage-square72linkfedilinkarrow-up1436arrow-down18cross-posted to: hackernews@lemmy.smeargle.fans
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minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoIf I may ask, what do you do as a professional academic linguist? Sounds like a interesting and niche field.
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minus-squaremeep_launcher@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2·2 years agoYou sound like a cunning linguist Are you also a master debater?
minus-square/home/pineapplelover@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 years agoYeah but what exactly does that entail? Studying over old books and figure out how the language has changed?
minus-squareit_depends_man@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·2 years agoThink of linguistics as “programming language but for languages”. Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics. There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky It’s really weird and interesting!
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If I may ask, what do you do as a professional academic linguist? Sounds like a interesting and niche field.
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You sound like a cunning linguist
Are you also a master debater?
Yeah but what exactly does that entail? Studying over old books and figure out how the language has changed?
Think of linguistics as “programming language but for languages”.
Is it ones and zeros, or is it more human readable? The differences between those, on an academic level is linguistics.
There is a full wiki article that probably gives a better impression of it than I can.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics_of_Noam_Chomsky
It’s really weird and interesting!
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